1921

...preparations for the 1922 season, and also in connection with the recent communication from R. E. Klassons about the task he has solved regarding desiccation.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

Printed from typewritten copy.

## CORRESPONDENCE CONCERNING P. KH. LALAYANTS

LETTER TO YA. P. VISHNYAK*
September 5, 1921

Dear Comrade,

Thank you very much for the news about Lalayants. I am extremely sorry that he has turned out to be outside the ranks of the RCP.

If you could, I would ask you to write me in more detail about why he stands outside the party, when he left it, how he lived under Kolchak in Siberia and so forth.

Since you think it would be useful to draw him into Soviet work, I would also ask you to write me whether you believe he needs to seek work in Irkutsk, or whether it is possible and expedient in another place, perhaps in Moscow.

With communist greetings,

Lenin

## MEMORANDUM TO I. V. STALIN
October 20, 1921

Comrade Stalin! Please review this, and if possible ask some of the old party members, perhaps Armenians. I have known Lalayants since the 1890s as a Marxist and later as a Bolshevik. Undoubtedly a devoted revolutionary who must be utilized despite political differences.

Lenin

## REPLY FROM I. V. STALIN

I also stand for summoning Lalayants to Moscow for work.

I. Stalin

## LETTER TO THE SECRETARY OF THE PRESIDIUM OF THE ALL-RUSSIAN CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
January 13, 1922

Comrade Lalayants tells me that it is necessary to help his family by sending them an allowance to live on until March. Speak with Stalin: how can this be done? From the Central Committee? Or from the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee? Write back to me, please, in the name of Fotieva—can this be arranged or not (the sum needs to be determined from Lalayants)? If there are difficulties, what are they? In what respect?

Then I will seek ways and means. Please forward this to Stalin: by the way, I ask him to reach an agreement with Lalayants about work for Lalayants. I see, after a conversation with Lalayants, that I cannot solve this myself. Stalin must solve it in the Orgburo, or with the help of the Orgburo.

Lenin

## LETTER TO THE STATISTICAL DEPARTMENT OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE RCP(b)
September 5, 1921

Would it not be possible to provide more detailed information about the distribution of Communists by Soviet positions (excluding the Red Army)?

By Commissariat
by department
by subdepartment
etc.

and in more detail—the character and type of work.

At least for Moscow (most importantly; it is necessary to separate Moscow from the district, if this is possible; Moscow is the main center) and for Petrograd.